The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed by Nate Anderson

On Internet Freedom by Marvin Ammori

Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society edited by Benedetta Brevini, Arne Hintz, and Patrick McCurdy

Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess edited by Jerry Brito

Coding Freedom by Gabriella Coleman

Captive Audience by Susan Crawford

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace by Ronald J. Deibert

Homeland by Cory Doctorow

This Machine Kills Secrets by Andy Greenberg

The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind—and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy

A Copyright Masquerade by Monica Horten

Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov

Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld

Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security by Bruce Schneier

The Human Face of Big Data by Rick Smolan

I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.

I am picking up most of my lists from Largehearted Boy. The summary post for 2012 books is here and all the posts for 2012 can be found here.

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From the beginning it’s been a pretty popular service so I’m happy to…

It is time. The season of lists begins again!
Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting about all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that I can find around the web in various media outlets.
From the beginning it’s been a pretty popular service so I’m happy to…

Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that I can find around the web in various media outlets.
From the beginning it’s been a pretty popular service so I’m happy to continue it. The previous posts for all the 2013 lists…

Every year for the last bunch of years I’ve been linking to and posting all the “year’s best sciencey books” lists that I can find around the web in various media outlets.
From the beginning it’s been a pretty popular service so I’m happy to continue it. The previous posts for all the 2013 lists…

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